Drape and curtain rod supporting bracket



Jan. 27, 1931. Y b 1,790,258

DRAPE AND CURTAIN ROD SUPPORTING BRACKET Filed may 21, 1930 Patented Jan. 27, 1931 v U TE STATss earsNTfjo FF cE,

7 JAMES H. BOYE, or onrcaeaitn uors, asslonorv TO JAMES H. Born: MANUFAGTUB me COMPANY, or osarcaeo, ILLINOIS, A. CCRPOEA'IION QEILLTlNOIS DRAPEVQAND o RTAI 'RoD surron'rme BRACKET Application flied May 21;

This invention relates to a supporting bracket for curtain fixtures, and in its most complete form as hereinafter described and shown in the accompanying drawings, it constitutes an extensible support for both a drape rod and a curtain rod; the curtain rod support, however, may be usefully employed in a non-extensible bracket, while certain novel features of the extensible bracket may be employed independently of the use of a curtain rod support.

The main object of the invention is to provide a very simple, easily assembled and adjusted curtain fixture bracket of the character specified; and the novel structural features will be hereinafter fully described, and more particularly pointed out in the claims. The invention, in its preferred form, is illustrated in the accompanying drawing in which Fig. 1 is a top planview, showing the device adapted to support both a drape rod and a curtain rod.

Fig. 2 is a vertical section taken 011 the line 22 of Fig. 1. v

Fig. 3 is a perspective view of the inner channel-shaped bracket arm.

Fig. 4 is a perspective view of the outer channel-shaped bracket arm and drape rod support on the outer endthereof.

Fig; 5 is a perspective view of the curtain rod support.

Referring to the drawing A may designate a portion of a-windo-w frame to which the over the arm section and equipped on its outer end with a hollow seat or support to receive one end of the drape rod 17. The vertical wall of the arm 15 is formed with a longitudinal slot 18 through which the clamp member 15 of a size to slidingly telescope.

1930. Serial n 454,247.

screw 14' passes, and whereby thefitwo arm. sections 10 and 15 may be secured in adjust, ed position. On the rear end of the vertical wall of the outer arm section 15 isa laterally projecting handle'member 19, by which, when the clamp screw is loosened, the outer armsection may be readily shifted back and forth over the inner arm section; The handle member isformed with a slot 2O that regis- The described structure, it will be seen,

readily enables the drape rod 17 tobe posi tioned at varying distances from the window framewithin the limits of adjustment of the inner and outer arm sections.

Describing now the curtain rod support, this element is shown in detail, in Fig. 5 and comprises an inclined shank member 21that, as shown in Fig. 1, is" nestedwithin the inner arm section 10 with -.-its upper and lower edges in contact with the upper and lower flanges ofthe channel-shaped arm. The rear end of the shank member is formed with a hook 22 that engages over the rear edge of the vertical wall of the arm section '10 in the manner shown in Fig. 1, thus preventing any turning or twisting movement of the shank memberg2l under the weight'of the curtain rod and curtain. On the inner side of the forwardend'of the'. shank member 21 is a seat 23 into which the end of the curtain rod 24 is fitted as clearly'shown in' Fig..2. On'

the outer side of the forward. end of the i shank member21 is a spacing lug 24 that, as

shown in Fig. 1, abuts against the inner side of the vertical wall of. the inner arm section 10, to properly position the seat memb'er23 which projects from the inner side. of the arm 10. It will readily be'seen. that when.

' so that the curtain rod support cannot become displaced.

Since the clamp screw 14 is located beyond the outer end of the curtain rod support, the

latter does not interfere with the adjustment v of the outer arm section carrying the drape rod support. 7 V

I claim: 7

i 1. A combined. drape rod and curtain" rod support, comprising a channel-shaped bracket arm attachable to a window frame'fo-rmed on its outer end with a drape rod support, and I a curtain rod support comprising a shank member disposed within said bracket arm, in contactwithithe top and bottom flanges of the latter, and a seat member on the forward end'of said shank member projecting from the inner side of said vbracket arm.

2. A combined drape. rod and curtain rod support, comprising a channel-shaped bracket arm, attachable to a window frame formed on its outer end with a drape rod support, and a curtain rod support comprising a shank member disposed within and lengthwise of said channel-shaped bracket arm and formed with a hook on its rear end engaging over the rear end of the vertical wall of said bracket arm, and a seat member on the forward end ofsaid shank member projecting from the inner side of said bracket arm.

'8. A combined drape rod and curtain'rod 7 support, comprising a channel-shaped bracket arm attachable to a window frame formed on its outer end with a drape rod support,

- and a curtain rod support comprising an inr wall of said bracket arm and on its forward end with a spacing lug abutting against the vertical wall of said bracket arm, and a seat member on the-forward end ofsaid shank member projecting from the inner sideof said bracket arm.

4. A lengthwise adjustable rod-supporting bracket, comprising a channel-shaped inner section attachable to a window frame, a channel-shaped outer arm section slidable over said inner section, the vertical wall of said outer section having a longitudinal slot, a rod supporting member on the outer end of said outer section, a clamp screw passed through said slot and into said inner section, and a handle member projecting laterally from the rear end of the vertical wall of said outer section, said handle member formed with a slot registering with the rear end of said longitudinal slot and of a size to per- '7 channel-shaped bracket arm section attachable to a window frame, an outer channel-' shaped bracket arm section slidable over said inner section, a rod supporting member on the outer end of said outer section, means for clamping said sections in adjusted position, and a curtain rod support comprising a shank member disposed within and lengthwise of said inner section and formed with a hook on its rear end engaging over the rear end of of said inner section,

' JAMES H. BOYE. 

